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Thomas Wilson (1524–1581) was an English diplomat, judge, and privy councillor in the government of Elizabeth I. He is now remembered for his ''Logique'' (1551) and ''The Arte of Rhetorique'' (1553),〔(''The Arte of Rhetorique'' on archive.org )〕 an influential text. They have been called "the first complete works on logic and rhetoric in English."〔James Franklin: ''The Science of Conjecture'' (2001) p.128.〕 He also wrote ''A Discourse upon Usury by way of Dialogue and Orations'' (1572), and he was the first to publish a translation of Demosthenes into English.〔Frederick Chamberlin: ''Elizabeth and Leycester'' Dodd, Mead & Co. 1939 p.56〕 ==Life== He was the son of Thomas Wilson, a farmer, of Strubby, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, where he joined the school of Hellenists to which John Cheke, Thomas Smith, Walter Haddon and others belonged. He earned a BA in 1546, and an M.A. in 1549. Wilson was an intellectual companion to the sons of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, especially with John, Ambrose, and Robert Dudley.〔 When the Dudley family fell from power in 1553, he fled to the Continent. He was with Sir John Cheke in Padua in 1555–1557, and afterwards at Rome, whither in 1558 Queen Mary wrote, ordering him to return to England to stand his trial as a heretic. He refused to come home, but was arrested by the Roman Inquisition and tortured. He escaped, and fled to Ferrara, but in 1560 he was once more in London. Wilson became Master of Requests and Master of St Katherine's Hospital in the Tower in 1561 and entered parliament in January 1563 as MP for Mitchell, Cornwall.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= WILSON, Thomas (1523–81), of Washingborough, Lincs. and Edmonton, Mdx. )〕 In 1571 and 1572 he was elected MP for London From 1574 to 1577, Wilson, who had now become a prominent person in the diplomatic world, was principally engaged on embassies to the Low Countries, and on his return to England he was made a privy councillor and sworn secretary of state; Francis Walsingham was his colleague.〔 In 1580, despite his being not in holy orders, Queen Elizabeth appointed Wilson Dean of Durham. He died at St Katherine's Hospital on 16 June 1581, and was buried next day, "without charge or pomp," at his express wish. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Wilson (rhetorician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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